Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-01
REAL ESTATE.
COMBINATION LAND co,
SPECIAL NO. 4.

SPEClAL NJ. Il.
1.-The old oligarchy of Greece now abolished
Were Jolly and genial and fond of the arts
Their tastes were refined, their manners were
polished,
But their manner of living :afIects their
hearts.
They neglected their business, they gave
themselves airs,
Read the poets in Greek, supped their
wine, took their rest,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
affairs,
And as for their morals-the least said the
best.
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
of men
And popular government formed IN theil
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora and
Crete,
And dozen or more Heather women whom
Each finds work at LEucAD1A, naming a
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twanged for
Eurydice
Now praises LEuCADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when it says
ne'er before did l see
A place where the truth seems lie and a
boast
Where else is a spot where the fig and the
Will grow side by side without water or
care,
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To God when he breathes the electrical
air?
If a man has a hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy lot there, not day will he
wait,
For LEUcADrA the lovely, the darling, the
Is the brightest and ncatest young town in
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
LEucADiA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles, San BernardinO and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
But there is only one seaside, and only one
There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt of translucent beryl
with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-rOOm and picture gallery OF the
Deity so attractive as at LEUcADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres ac
and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth OF Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look!
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The japanese ocean
Gulf Stream" of the Pacific,
in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuea to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey. for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
fetal heat, and do not bathe in the ocean.
AS for Santa Cruz, there is couplet written
by some shiyering pleasure seeker, on the
walls of a bath-house there, which coupletac
expresses the situation.
''santa Cruz water is like the Scotch snuff,
One dip" and you've got enough"
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
cold, ocean current continues
in = direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
angle, and in a few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to- make bathing in any month
of the nf a real nlpaSnrp instead Of .sa
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyOs, so as to make the ocean practically
to all except Alpine tourists and
crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro are pro-
badly twenty of thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
BallOna, Long Beach, etc. All these
are upon the f1at-table land which runs from
the top of the bluff inland. There is no
slope, and therefor no view of the ocean, ex-
cept from the avenue along the very edge of
the bluff. The beach is passable but not al
ways desirable for driving, and the under
tow is often heavy, so that surf-bathers are
not safe unless they use the lines connected
with buOys, anchored in deep water. And
they do use them, for on Sunday at Santa
Monica, you can see twenty or thirty bathers
attired in scant garments of many colOrs,
strung along rope, and rs they resemble an
immense animated kite-tale swaying in a
high wind.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagOons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. This place is open to the same OBJ
jeetions as Santa Monica. There is an ex-
tremely high bluff and a table land from the
bluff inland, and from only one street on the
edge of the bluff can an ocean view be OBJ
tanned. Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direct
road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for a
lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for resident lots a mile and more
from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
him with an attempt to talk about selling, he
will make the interview as brief as may be
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
bad, and it is beautiful location, and there
will be large town there, and prices of lots
are already away up, as they ought to be-
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest
site in the world for an ocean city, and on
this site Is "Leucadia"-the subject of our
sketch. Encinitas has a good location, but
somehow it started wrong. The ownership
of the land is divided between many men Of
many minds When one pulls in any par
ticular direction the other pulls the other
way. There being no company or central
authority to carry out public Improvements,
the result is a lack of hotel accommodations,
no water works, and an assortment of shrines
to Cloacina, beer kegs, tin cans and broken
bottles about the depot, or the place where
the depot ought to be-. The Encinitas people
will fix these things after awhile, but they
must fix them before Encinitas can take her
proper place among seaside towns. South OF
Encinitas there is some broken country,
then the lagoons of the San Diegito, and
then comes delightful Delmar with most OF
the best localities not for sale, or held at high
prices.
Delmar ends the list. There the railroad
leayes the cOast and with the execution Of